QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal QUOTE: Originally posted by bobwilcox QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal QUOTE: Originally posted by teamdon Most major railroad now don't WANT the small shipper,... ...A double stack container train is nothing but one train on top of another...think about the genius in that........ The problem of course is that most of those "small shippers" are domestic, so they invaribly have a difficult time in getting their product out of the plant... I don't think so with 200,000 trucking companies in the U. S. and an average haul of 250 miles for inter-city shipments. The small domestic shippers have a very difficult time arranging any kind of rail shipments, as teamdon pointed out, so as a last resort they shift to trucks. The trucks don't win head to head, they win by forfeit. The shipper is hamstrung by the limitations of truckload vs carload, even if that truckload ends up on TOFC/COFC. The statement by teamdon remains irrefutable. The observation that double stack favors imports over exports is also irrefutable.
QUOTE: Originally posted by bobwilcox QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal QUOTE: Originally posted by teamdon Most major railroad now don't WANT the small shipper,... ...A double stack container train is nothing but one train on top of another...think about the genius in that........ The problem of course is that most of those "small shippers" are domestic, so they invaribly have a difficult time in getting their product out of the plant... I don't think so with 200,000 trucking companies in the U. S. and an average haul of 250 miles for inter-city shipments.
QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal QUOTE: Originally posted by teamdon Most major railroad now don't WANT the small shipper,... ...A double stack container train is nothing but one train on top of another...think about the genius in that........ The problem of course is that most of those "small shippers" are domestic, so they invaribly have a difficult time in getting their product out of the plant...
QUOTE: Originally posted by teamdon Most major railroad now don't WANT the small shipper,... ...A double stack container train is nothing but one train on top of another...think about the genius in that........
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
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